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Exact textual statePrimary Text

Shadows on the Road

Part of Shadows on the Road

StateFinished / professionalSurviving witnesses2TSS catalogue units3Catalogue rolePrimary / default
Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.

Characters in this exact text

Exhaustively reviewed for this catalogued Poetry state. Generic lyric speakers/addressees, collectives, places and purely metaphorical allusions are not manufactured into permanent Characters.

No qualifying individual Characters or named entities were found in this exact textual state.

Surviving manuscript evidence

The records below describe surviving physical typescripts, carbons, manuscript material and documentary catalogue evidence for this exact textual state. TSS numbers identify physical catalogue units; they are not story or draft IDs.

Original Howard typescript — TSS 82284Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 82284

Original Typescript (OT) from the retained TSS catalogue.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 573–573

Glenn Lord retype — Shadows on the RoadSecondary retype
Extent2 pagesCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 2 Glenn Lord retype pages

TSS: 15127–15128

Glenn Lord preservation retype; source inventory physical description: Flat-t TW.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · 15000 / Poetry working list · Shadows on the Road (gr1) · TSS 15127–15128

Textual witnesses & editorial mediation

These records describe how this textual state is known or represented. A witness may be authorial, editorially mediated, restored, transcribed or otherwise derived without becoming a new Howard-authored textual state.

Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 75Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 1 p. 75

Published in

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume OneREH Foundation PressOctober 2022↗